
In cartoon eyes, you can vary the angle these origins have to each other in order to add variety. I'll show you more about this later. The average eye's lid origins tend to line up. Yet in reality, they have specific origins from which they pivot to open and close.
The eyelids have an origin - In many cartoon eyes, the lids tend to often appear out of no where. Eyes are spheres - This is, of course, the most common sense of all the things, yet when drawing eyes, most of us tend to draw flat stickers for eyes instead of spheres inserted in the head. Let's quickly take a look at why these things are good to know: Some of these things may seem like common sense, but more often than not, when drawing cartoon eyes, they're ignored. When drawing cartoon eyes, there are four things about realistic eyes to keep in mind: Especially the more naturalistic your cartoon characters are.
However before we begin, just as having knowledge of drawing real heads helps your head drawing, having real knowledge of how real eyes work, will help your cartoon eye drawing. In this section I'm going to be talking about a few specific types eyes and what they're made up of. Eyes come in all types of shape and sizes.